I'm invited to a Halloween costume party with wingnuts

[Sedona]

Just lost my job and money's tight.
Any ideas for cheap costumes for me and the hubby?

[nannycee]

1. That happened here one year...

...so we got balloons and large clear plastic bag and went as a bag of jelly beans. Don't laugh...won the best costumer prize. Good or bad, it worked! :)

[BattyDem]

8. That is a great idea!

Very clever! :hi:

[nannycee]

10. Oh, Good! I wasn't sure whether to share! :) LOL n/t

[lonestarnot]

32. Too raygun for my tastes.

:D

[Oceansaway]

2. go to buycostumes.com...

they've got some good ones there


edited to add....the 99 cent paper masks are great...

i got the Obama Mask (99 cent each) and it works !

[SheilaT]

3. Well, if you're taller than three feet

this may not work, but I used a brown grocery bag, wrote on it "Trick or Treat!" and sent my youngest out as a Trick or Treat bag when he was two and again at age three.

[Hugabear]

4. No offense, but why would you want to go to a party with a bunch of wingnuts?

Especially after losing a job and being on a tight budget? Would seem like being around a bunch of wingnuts would be the last place you'd want to be.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

17. My question, exactly

[Tallison]

5. I work in case management

and was thinking of going as a Republican social worker to my office party. I don't know how to dress as one, but thought of just saying, "Sorry, can't help 'ya" all night.

[NOW tense]

6. Dress as dirty as possible

and goes as John McCain's Campaign.

[pepperbear]

7. a pig mask and a tube of lipstick. n/t

[cynatnite]

9. Put on a bright red dress and get a fake moosehead...

tell everyone you can see Alaska from your house and that as VP you're going to legislate. Fix your husband up as McCain and put big bright lipstick on his lips. He has to stay with you wherever you go and keep saying 'we've got them right where we've got them'.

:evilgrin:

Well, that's what I'd do if I was going to a Halloween wingnut party.

[ogneopasno]

11. Stuff a pillow under your shirt

and go without shoes and you'll be their greatest nightmare -- barefoot, pregnant and unemployed!

(I apologize if this sounds heartless -- it's not meant to be. I got laid off right before we started our second child, and I used to joke about how I was a Republican's worst nightmare. Good luck to you!)

[4 t 4]

20. A Wingnut party

just get a cheap * mask and make a sandwhich board that say's How Are You Merikans Doing Now!

[CrispyQ]

12. Get a bunch of campaign gear from both campaigns.

Signs, bumper stickers, buttons, whatever you can find. Place all the Obama ones on the front & all the McCain ones on the back. Then cross out all the McCain ones with a marker. When they ask what you are, say you were an undecided voter, but now you've made up your mind.

It will drive them crazy!

;)

[Coexist]

13. hubby went as a priest (collar and dark suit ,cheap plastic cross)

I wore khaki shorts and shirt and kerchief around my neck, I was a boy scout...

we won first prize.

[Quantess]

14. wear a hollow barrel around your body, held up by suspenders.

For the classic "I'm in the poorhouse" gag.

[Fumesucker]

15. Make a wingnut hat out of cardboard and spray it with gold paint..

Then write "Golden Wingnut Award" on it..

Give the nuttiest wingnut there a big hug at the end of the night..

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Wear a barrel with a sign that says "Victim of Republicans"

or, hopefully, something a little more creative than what I can come up with right now, but that hammers home the point that Republicans carry far, far, far more blame for the bad economy and high levels of poverty.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. Or "I was attacked by Osama, so I attacked Sadam, and now all I have left is a barrel"

That's still not quite as clever as it should be, but better than my first one.

[Whoa_Nelly]

19. Be Tippi Hedren from Hitchcock's "The Birds"

Take an old blouse, put "blood" on it, rip it in places, add some fake birds attached with floral wire to the shirt and your updo hairdo. Wear an A-Line or "secretary" skirt. Look bedraggled and attacked. Ripped hose,lots of mascara!

Barbie example



Oh! And wear tag that says: For the Birds McCain
you can print one out here or use the one I made for you :D :

http://johnmccainisyournewlogo.com/

[TuxedoKat]

24. Hey! I've seen a Barbie like this before!

Is this your creation? Are you a doll customizer?

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. Naw...just got it from the Inter Tubes

:D

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[SoCalNative]

22. Get some raggedy clothes

from the thrift store. Make them even more raggedy.

Tell everyone that you're the economy as a result of the last 8 years under Bush.

[stillcool]

23. White sheets and hoods..

you'll fit right in!

[lonestarnot]

34. ding ding ding WINNER!

[nosillies]

25. You be purple heart band aid woman, and let hubby be the

"get a brain moran" guy.


I'm too lazy to pull pics right now, but if you need them I'm sure someone can hook us up.

[TlalocW]

27. My first suggestion has won me first place two separate times

The Invisible Man. Or at least how he's described/shown in the beginning of the book/movie. Go to Wally-World/Dollar Store/etc. and buy a cheap white bed sheet and cut it into strips and wrap them around you head as bandages and put on a pair of sunglasses. A trenchcoat if you've got one and some gloves complete the look. This is actually a very disconcerting - even frightening (I've gotten screams and given people the willies) - costume because with most other costumes that have some sort of mask, the mask has a look of intent on it - an evil werewolf, a goofy clown, etc. This is a blank slate that others will project their fears onto. Nothing scares a person more than the unknown.

Go and buy another bedsheet, cut a hole in the center for your head to go through and maybe some armholes. Buy some variety packs of cereal and stab them with plastic knives and glue them onto your sheet - voila, you're a cereal killer. Saw that in grad school when I went with a now ex-girlfriend to her department's Halloween party. Another interesting costume was a guy in clown whiteface and wearing a Good Humor Ice Cream man uniform. He dresses up as a childhood fear each year. (My ex's department was psychology by the way)

A third bedsheet (white), cut the holes again, and just glue your week's trash to it, and you're white trash. A friend saw this one year.

Combine two common costumes into something new (idea from the comic strip Basic Instructions at http://www.basicinstructions.net). Another bed sheet and a handkerchief at the end of a pole, and you're the ghost of a dead hobo. A vampire with pointy ears, and you're Count Spockula. :) I'm actually helping a friend out with one of his costume stores. Today, I convinced a high schooler to get an astronaut costume and wear a werewolf mask inside the bubble helmet so he could be a lycanthrope moon-lander and thus always a werewolf because he's affected by the moon, which he's on. :)

- The comic I was referring to
- A good way to handle Trick-Or-Treaters


TlalocW

[KamaAina]

28. Sarah Palin

hubby could go as McLoser (combover, suit, no flag pin), Todd (camo from the nearby Army-Navy; cap with big floppy ears a must), or Levi (hair mousse, T-shirt with crude sexual/pregnancy reference).

[Mariana]

29. Well, wingnuts love Bible characters.

So go as Adam and Eve. Carry around an apple. You'll be a sensation.

[mmonk]

30. Fig leaves.

[Hekate]

31. I'm assuming that at a party you don't want to be offensive. Some of these ideas are great though...

... very clever, and not a poke in the eye to anyone. I think you'll do fine with them, and knowing DU there will be more great ideas coming.

I hope you have a good time and are speedily re-employed.

Hekate

[Aristus]

33. Costume yourself as "Reality". They'll never recognize you.

:P

[lonestarnot]

35. I know I'd rather stay home than go there. So no suggestions.

[VPStoltz]

36. Find the most hideous masks of McCain/Palin you can...

[ArmedAmerican]

37. bring a marionette named G.W. and you're Dick Cheney

also bring a shotgun. A fake shotgun, optionally.

[orleans]

38. stay home and watch a good movie by carmel candlelight.

i'm sure the company will be better.

[kitfalbo]

39. Two examples

Check Here


http://www.somethingpositive.net/